Islamic State militants open office for potential wives: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Islamic State insurgents have opened an office in northern Syria where single women and widows can register to marry fighters from the radical al Qaeda offshoot, a monitoring group said on Monday.
Police find 15 corpses in Baghdad in bloody start to Muslim Eid holiday
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi police on Monday found the corpses of 15 people, including three women shot in the head in militia-style killings, a bloody start to the holiday marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, security sources said.
Georgian prosecutors charge ex-president Saakashvili
TBILISI (Reuters) – The prosecutor’s office in Georgia has filed criminal charges against former President Mikhail Saakashvili in what the opposition says is a political witch-hunt by the ex-Soviet republic’s new leaders.
Nigeria isolates Lagos hospital where Ebola victim died
LAGOS (Reuters) – The Nigerian city of Lagos on Monday shut down and quarantined a hospital where a man died of Ebola in the first recorded case of the highly infectious disease in Africa’s most populous country.
Sweden resumes aid to Uganda after suspending it over anti-gay law
KAMPALA (Reuters) – Sweden has resumed financial aid to Uganda after suspending some assistance in March over a law widely condemned by donor nations that increases punishment for homosexuals.
Ukraine troops advance as experts renew attempt to reach crash site
KIEV/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – At least three civilians were killed in overnight fighting in eastern Ukraine and government troops pressed ahead with their campaign against pro-Russian rebels, taking a strategic point close to where Malaysian flight …
Aqunio urges support as scandal threatens to hurt Philippine economy
MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine President Benigno Aquino called on the nation on Monday to support his reforms as he faced the biggest political crisis in his four years in power, a spending scandal that could damage his anti-graft image and undermine re…
Thai soldier among four killed in clash in Muslim south
BANGKOK (Reuters) – A Thai soldier and three suspected Muslim separatists were killed on Monday in a clash in southern Thailand, police said, as security forces in the region were on alert for attacks marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Rama…
Pakistan mob kills woman, girls, over ‘blasphemous’ Facebook post
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A Pakistani mob killed a woman member of a religious sect and two of her granddaughters after a sect member was accused of posting blasphemous material on Facebook, police said Monday, the latest instance of growing violence again…
In Ukraine’s east, Soviet-style economy withers under onslaught
DONETSK/KIEV (Reuters) – After pro-Russian rebels took 720 kg of explosives, 360 detonators and almost 1 km of wiring, the Skochinskiy coal mine, an ageing stalwart of the economy in Ukraine’s Donbass region, was put out of action.
